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Egan, G. (2011) The missing page: Hancock's half hour and the debasement of literature. Book Destruction, one day conference at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, 16 April.

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This paper was presented at a one day conference, Book Destruction, held at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, 16 April 2011.

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In this paper I want to consider how the relationship between an idealized text and its imperfect physical embodiment is explored in an unlikely corner of English comic history, an episode of the BBC radio and television show Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The episode is called "The Missing Page" and was first broadcast on 11 March 1960 (Galton & Simpson 1960) on BBC television and re-recorded with virtually the same script as an audio performance five years later (Galton & Simpson 1965).

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The missing page: Hancock's half hour and the debasement of literature